Canadian Fisheries Going Bust
The CBC’s John Calver reports from St. John’s, Newfoundland on the sharp decline in stocks of salmon and cod off northeast Canada. The Canadian government blames foreign vessels fishing just outside its territorial waters, but the decline may also be due in part to an unexplained change in a major ocean current.
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